Reddit moderators are becoming increasingly unreasonable. They're now banning me from one site just because they don't like something I posted on another.
Let me answer this from my perspective.
No matter if somebody likes this or not, but we both are doing some software. Some of it may be for Rigol devices and some of this some, may be not free of charge, which is the case here, but it doesn't matter.
Rigol makes quite good hardware for the price, but the firmware is a crap.
Lately Rigol started selling MHO900 series (I think MHO98 is included in it) and they added small and simple change to "protect" it from unlocking options like a higher bandwidth, memory depth and other things. I breached it in one day, without having any scope from this series and users of MHO934 can use 1 GHz bandwidth without paying 480$. They have two AFG which they already payed for, but Rigol locked it and required to pay "just" 800$ to flip a one bit and make possible to use it.
I breached it, not because Im good or something. But rather because their coders are bad (or cheap if You prefer).
Yesterday I received email from one of my MHO900 mod users. Along the things he said: "few owners of MHO98 being the influencers" (shortened quote).
When they did DHO800/900 firmware, it was a copy od DHO4000 firmware with some changes. Why they disabled a lot of triggers, decoders, UPA and other things? Because they want from You to buy DHO4000 or other very expensive model, just to have one stupid thing in the firmware. Some users maybe will prefer to have small portable scope with those things, even with paying the price for DHO4000, but Rigol doesn't give a f*ck.
Some weeks ago, on this exact forum there was some people accusing me of doing "illegal" things against Rigol company and it was like hurting their feelings, because some "innocent" company from China with small revenue of 23.2 M was going to get broke.
Jokes aside, fighting with it works just like a Streisand effect, which means it's completely opposite result - it's very bad for the company reputation. Funny thing, all accusations from all of them just stopped in the same day - it can mean only one thing: Rigol payed for this.
On this forum there is a lot of people and only one moderator. There was a war and a lot of insults from those people, but this one mod banned me (muted if You like) for one week and nobody else. Coincidence?
Not longer than 10 h ago I got permanent ban on this subreddit too. Coincidence?
Still I have no reply from the mod and I guess both of us will never receive any reply from them. Rigol payed good enough money. I guess 100$ was enough.
As You can see, I added my posts before this rule was added. They added this rule and my post was deleted. Why they banned me month later? Money from Rigol of course. Some people will do such things for money like 100$, because it's not more than 5 minutes and they feel safe. You will never know neither real name of the mod or even nickname.
Most of the subreddits has a random people as a mod. You can be banned anytime, not because You breaked any rule, but because one person had some interest in it, even purely emotional. Which happened to me once on other not technical subreddit. On the side note, Reddit become much worse for different reasons lately (I heard something about new CEO).
PS. Few months ago Rigol did one change in the SD card for DHO800/900. For 99% it was done to prevent from installing OS modifications. My mod (scripts) was not only installing modified app but also doing changes in OS mostly to increase performance and to add features like a easy access to Android desktop. People reported this problem and it was extremely easy to fix it remotely. Now I automated it in the scripts, so it will not fail, no matter if this is old one or a newer one.
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